Dutch PHP Conference 2010
10 - 12 Jun 2010 at Amsterdam

Hilarious and reasonably light-hearted session to end the day. Cal gave a good intro to Flash Builder 4 and dealt well with his live-coding demo, especially considering he was relying on Eclipse not misbehaving ;-)

Some nice points about how to deal with web services, a lot of which would apply to all uses (i.e. desktop as well as low-featured/powered devices). Nice to hear someone else agree sessions are unreliable when dealing with web services. Talk was a little difficult to follow at times, some of the questions at the end weren't clearly repeated (by the speaker) so I couldn't really follow the answers.

Liked the summary of the different strategies for database version control. An important topic oft ignored. Nice to see the simple patching system is what we use at Studio 24. From what Harrie says seems to be keep it simple = good. Rob Allen's Akrabat_Db_Schema_Manager is something I really need to check out though.

Nice viewpoint that certainly resonates with me (one of my hats is ensuring our shared hosting servers works for clients who use it). Liked the points on security within a shared environment and strategies for scaling. The tools at the end also sounded very good.

And I *loved* the slide on register_globals with the blood-strewen axe, wish I'd taken a pic at that point!!

Lots of easy to implement quick wins and some good but generic advice. Would have liked to see a before/after example that would show the effect if you stack up all these performance tweaks. The pace of the talk was a bit too fast, but the speaker was very engaging.

excellent talk by an engaging speaker. Although it covered a lot of general details, I found it really interesting. Seems to me to be terribly important that people simply recognise technical debt exists, I certainly feel more able to communicate this back to the team after this talk.

Interesting insight on HiPHoP for PHP. The Facebook numbers at the beginning were impressive. The optimization gained from the HiPHoP compiler were equally impressive. Got me inspired to at least try it out some time.

For me, from a technical point of view, it was the most interesting talk of the day. I already knew Git, but the stuff from the talk was all "new". Good job explaining these things!

Some interesting points raised by the talk though it was a little rough around the edges at times. Liked the details on dependencies and how to deal with them for testing. Perhaps focussing more on one or two areas, with more detailed examples, would have also been good. In all, nice start to the day though :)

{ book ordered } inspiring talk! I did also find estimations the most insightful part.